Donald R. Dia­mond, an Ari­zona real estate devel­oper and major fundraiser for John McCain’s pres­i­den­tial cam­paign, speak­ing about a devel­op­ment project at Fort Ord for which McCain pro­vided a letter of sup­port on his behalf (empha­sis mine):

I think this is what Con­gress people are sup­posed to do for constituents…. When you have a big, sig­nif­i­cant busi­ness­man like myself, why wouldn’t you want to help move things along? What else would they do? They waste so much time with legislation.